Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-10-07
IN GENERAL.

The American Missionary association will
hold its 4lst annual meeting in Portland,
Me-, Oct. 1921.
The German army has been experiment
ing with a view to using dogs in warfare to
carry messages quickly from the picket line
to the rear.
Rev Hugh O. Pentecost speaks of Henry
George as an apostle raised up and inspired
of God as much as Paul was; and he chris
tens him "St George
San Quentin, Cal, has a bonanza in the
shape of a formation Of rock salt, fourteen
miles long by three or four wide and from
100 to 125 feet in depth.
Oakley Hall is now an English subject and
is trying to get the late Judah P. Benja-
minis enormous law practice. In this he
has already been partly successful.
Honey is scarce this year. The three
leading honey producing states, Illinois,
Wisconsin and Michigan, have absolutely
no honey at all, and California has only
enough for home consumption.
4 man died at Farview, Fla. recently,
at the age of ~, who for IA years, accord
ing to his dying statement, had never re-
mained a whole month in one place. On
his death-bed he stated that he killed his
cousin in quarrel, when boy, and had
since been "A wanderer.
Gen Isaac S. Burrill who as colonel of
the Forty second Massachusetts, Volunteers
was captured at Galveston in 1864, had the
pleasure within a few days of entertaining
in Boston Capt. Chubb of the Confederate
army, who had charge of Gen. Burrill and
the other prisoners taken at the same time.
Rev. Frank c. Haddock son of the tenn
perance martyr, has become an active mem
ber of the Des Moines conference of the
Methodist church. He entered the minis
try as a Congregationalist but left it to
study and practice law. The murder of his
father at Sioux City caused him to return
to the ministry as an active worker for the
cause of temperance.
The New York Board of Education have
| decided to introduce manual training into
the public schools. The system will in
cude carpenter work, or the use of wood
working tools, for boys; modelling in clay,
| for both boys and girls; construction work
in paper, pasteboard and other suitable ma
terial, for both sexes; drawing to scale,
also for both; sewing and cooking, for girls.
| j. NJ. Bailey, once famous as the wit of
the Danbury News, has faded from the
| humorous world, and is now an actor in
daily repeated domestic tragedy. His wife
| is insane and demands his entire attention.
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and attend to all her wants. She is like "A
child, and he gives her all his affection,
time and attention His devotion is de
scribed as something heroic.
A singular case is reported to have oc-
CURED in Claremont, n. H., few days
since A gentleman sick and on his death
bed desired to make his will, and sent for
ex-congressman Parker to draw the instru-
ment Mr. Parker wrote out the paper,
the witnesses were present and the testator
rose in his bed to sign the same, wrote his
first and given name only and fell back
dead. Was that instrument complete
The Statue of Liberty has innocent blood
ON its hands. 1t is responsible for the daily
slaughter of immense numbers Of little
birds which, in winging their way South
on their annual migration, are attracted by
the brilliant electric light of the big torch,
On one morning recently no less than 1900
of the poor creatures were picked up, and
their condition indicated that they had
dashed themselves against Libertys bronze
bosom and had been thrown crushed and
lifeless at her feet.
Montana's treasury has been bankrupted
by the bounty on prairie dogs and ground
squirrels Last winter the Legislature au-
thorized reward Of ten cents for prairie
dogs and five cents for squirrels, and h
date the territory has paid for Sos, ,07l
ground squirrels and lj3, 700 prairie dogs
or total of over $4,000 These payments
exhausted the money in the treasury, and
were running the territory in debt A
special session of the Legislature has been
called to repeal the law.
OF the New York "boodle' aldermen
three are in Sing Sing prison, four are flu
gitiyes, two are dead and one insane, thre'
are witnesses for the state, eight are under
Indictment but at large ON bail, and on,
failed of conviction through disagreement
of the jury. They are not happy lot o
men Probably the last named, Cleary
will be tried again, now that the Sharl
case is OFF the docket, and the others viii
probably soon have to face trial. But tn
Il next trial ON the list may be that of jane
A. Richmond, who was president of tn
Broadway railroad, and against whom
similar indictment lies with that on whc
Sharp has been convicted